Entry Book: March 1667 | British History Online

Calendar of Treasury Books, Volume 1, 1660-1667. Originally published by His Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1904.

'Entry Book: March 1667', in Calendar of Treasury Books, Volume 1, 1660-1667, (London, 1904) pp. 735-736. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-treasury-books/vol1/pp735-736 [accessed 26 April 2024]

March 1667


Date.	Nature and Substance of the Entry.	Reference.

March 4	Same from same and Lord Ashley to the Excise Commissioners to discharge from prison on certain terms, detailed, Mathew Coppinger, one of the Farmers of the Excise of Bristol, who, with George Raleigh, another Farmer of the same, is in arrear 2,492l. 2s. 8d. on the rent of said farm.	Ibid, XII. p. 235.
March 9	Warrant from Treasurer Southampton to the Customs Farmers to pay to Katherine, Countess of Chesterfield, her creation money to the dignity of a Countess; as by the letters patent dated the Hague, 1660. May 29.	Early Entry Book X. p. 355.
March 15	Same from same to the Serjeant at Arms attending him. to arrest Harman Williamson and John Foster for their abuse of John Lee, messenger and gauger to the farmers of the London Excise.	Ibid, XII. p. 239.
	Allowance by same of the quarterly salary bill, prefixed in detail, of the Excise office for the quarter ending Lady Day next. (Total 866l. 6s. 3d.).	Ibid.
	Warrants from same to the Customs Farmers to pay to Viscount Fanshaw, King's Remembrancer, 233l. 0s. 2d. for moneys, detailed, disbursed by him for parchment books for the outports; and 21l. 12s. 8d. for the same for London port for one year ending 1666, Xmas; and 45l. 12s. 0d. for the fees due to himself and his clerks heretofore usually paid by the Customers of the outports for passing their accounts: viz. for the above said year.	Ibid, X. pp. 355–6.
March 20	Same from same to the Customs Farmers and officers not in future to suffer the landing or delivering of any goods more than entered, even on a post entry: it being found that the indulgence in this respect has of late increased the number of applications for tolerating these unlawful practices.	Ibid, p. 358.
1667. March 27	Same from same to the King's Remembrancer to estal the debt of 923l. 13s. 0½d. due from Thomas Thory, collector of Boston port.	Ibid, p. 360.
March 29	Same from same [to the Clerk of the Pipe] for a commission to issue under the Seal of the Exchequer Court in the terms of a draft, prefixed in extenso, for appointing and limiting or marking out the Customs House wharves and quays in London port for landing and shipping goods as by the Act of 1 Eliz and 14 Charles II, c. xi.: all in view of the fact that the quays, wharves and cranes in London port have by the late fire suffered a total mutation and other adjacent places not then allowed by the law to be places of shipping or landing are now laid in common with them: it being further necessary to determine the strict bounds of such quays, &c., in consequence of the Act of 18–19 Car. II, cap. viii, for rebuilding the city; as the said Act requires that no building be erected within 40 feet of such quay, &c., from Tower Wharf to the Temple Stairs.	Ibid, pp. 362–5.